Every year holiday collections are gathered with pleas “for the children” at heart, but last Wednesday, the children at The Place in Norwich turned the tables of good will and delivered dozens of collected food items to the United Church of Christ.

“The kids wanted to do something, so we outreached to the church and just asked how we could help,” said Paula Crawford, director of the Kid’s Program at The Place.

I walked with the kids Wednesday afternoon as we went across town to deliver the over 500 food items collected in just a two-week period to the church.

Once there, the UCC Church volunteers and I aided the kids in sorting out the food in the pantry and then evenly distributed it to over 80 area families.